Convolutional Neural Networks

Project: Write an Algorithm for a Dog Identification App


In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!

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In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.

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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this Jupyter notebook.


Why We're Here

In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

Sample Dog Output

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!

The Road Ahead

We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.

  • Step 0: Import Datasets
  • Step 1: Detect Humans
  • Step 2: Detect Dogs
  • Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)
  • Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)
  • Step 5: Write your Algorithm
  • Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

Step 0: Import Datasets

Make sure that you've downloaded the required human and dog datasets:

Note: if you are using the Udacity workspace, you DO NOT need to re-download these - they can be found in the /data folder as noted in the cell below.

  • Download the dog dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in this project's home directory, at the location /dog_images.

  • Download the human dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in the home directory, at location /lfw.

Note: If you are using a Windows machine, you are encouraged to use 7zip to extract the folder.

In the code cell below, we save the file paths for both the human (LFW) dataset and dog dataset in the numpy arrays human_files and dog_files.

In [1]:
import numpy as np
from glob import glob

# load filenames for human and dog images
human_files = np.array(glob("/data/lfw/*/*"))
dog_files = np.array(glob("/data/dog_images/*/*/*"))

# print number of images in each dataset
print('There are %d total human images.' % len(human_files))
print('There are %d total dog images.' % len(dog_files))
There are 13233 total human images.
There are 8351 total dog images.

Step 1: Detect Humans

In this section, we use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images.

OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory. In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.

In [2]:
import cv2                
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt                        
%matplotlib inline                               

# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')

# load color (BGR) image
img = cv2.imread(human_files[0])
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

# find faces in image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)

# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))

# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
    # add bounding box to color image
    cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
    
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
Number of faces detected: 1

Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.

In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.

Write a Human Face Detector

We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.

In [3]:
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path):
    img = cv2.imread(img_path)
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
    return len(faces) > 0

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Human Face Detector

Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.

  • What percentage of the first 100 images in human_files have a detected human face?
  • What percentage of the first 100 images in dog_files have a detected human face?

Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.

Answer: (You can print out your results and/or write your percentages in this cell)

In [4]:
from tqdm import tqdm

human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = dog_files[:100]

#-#-# Do NOT modify the code above this line. #-#-#

## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm 
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.

human_in_human_dataset_count = np.sum([face_detector(i) for i in human_files_short])
human_in_dog_dataset_count = np.sum([face_detector(i) for i in dog_files_short])

print('Human faces in human dataset detected: {}%'.format(human_in_human_dataset_count))
print('Human faces in dog dataset detected:   {}%'.format(human_in_dog_dataset_count))
Human faces in human dataset detected: 98%
Human faces in dog dataset detected:   17%

We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on human_files_short and dog_files_short.

In [67]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Test performance of anotherface detection algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

Step 2: Detect Dogs

In this section, we use a pre-trained model to detect dogs in images.

Obtain Pre-trained VGG-16 Model

The code cell below downloads the VGG-16 model, along with weights that have been trained on ImageNet, a very large, very popular dataset used for image classification and other vision tasks. ImageNet contains over 10 million URLs, each linking to an image containing an object from one of 1000 categories.

In [5]:
import torch
import torchvision.models as models

# define VGG16 model
VGG16 = models.vgg16(pretrained=True)

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

# move model to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    VGG16 = VGG16.cuda()
    
print(VGG16)
Downloading: "https://download.pytorch.org/models/vgg16-397923af.pth" to /root/.torch/models/vgg16-397923af.pth
100%|██████████| 553433881/553433881 [00:05<00:00, 97088066.49it/s] 
VGG(
  (features): Sequential(
    (0): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (3): ReLU(inplace)
    (4): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (5): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (6): ReLU(inplace)
    (7): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (8): ReLU(inplace)
    (9): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (10): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (11): ReLU(inplace)
    (12): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (13): ReLU(inplace)
    (14): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (15): ReLU(inplace)
    (16): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (17): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (18): ReLU(inplace)
    (19): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (20): ReLU(inplace)
    (21): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (22): ReLU(inplace)
    (23): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (24): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (25): ReLU(inplace)
    (26): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (27): ReLU(inplace)
    (28): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (29): ReLU(inplace)
    (30): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
  )
  (classifier): Sequential(
    (0): Linear(in_features=25088, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (3): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (4): ReLU(inplace)
    (5): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (6): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=1000, bias=True)
  )
)

Given an image, this pre-trained VGG-16 model returns a prediction (derived from the 1000 possible categories in ImageNet) for the object that is contained in the image.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Making Predictions with a Pre-trained Model

In the next code cell, you will write a function that accepts a path to an image (such as 'dogImages/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg') as input and returns the index corresponding to the ImageNet class that is predicted by the pre-trained VGG-16 model. The output should always be an integer between 0 and 999, inclusive.

Before writing the function, make sure that you take the time to learn how to appropriately pre-process tensors for pre-trained models in the PyTorch documentation.

In [6]:
from PIL import Image
import torchvision.transforms as transforms

from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

def VGG16_predict(img_path):
    '''
    Use pre-trained VGG-16 model to obtain index corresponding to 
    predicted ImageNet class for image at specified path
    
    Args:
        img_path: path to an image
        
    Returns:
        Index corresponding to VGG-16 model's prediction
    '''
    
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    ## Load and pre-process an image from the given img_path
    ## Return the *index* of the predicted class for that image
    
    img = Image.open(img_path)
    transform_pipeline = transforms.Compose([transforms.RandomResizedCrop(250),
                                             transforms.ToTensor()])
    
    img_tensor = transform_pipeline(img)
    img_tensor = img_tensor.unsqueeze(0) 
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        img_tensor = img_tensor.cuda()

    prediction = VGG16(img_tensor)
    
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        prediction = prediction.cpu()

    index = prediction.data.numpy().argmax()
    
    return index  # predicted class index

def process_image_to_tensor(image):
    # define transforms for the training data and testing data
    prediction_transforms = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(param_transform_resize),
                                          transforms.CenterCrop(param_transform_crop),
                                          transforms.ToTensor(),
                                          transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                               [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])
    
    img_pil = Image.open( image ).convert('RGB')
    img_tensor = prediction_transforms( img_pil )[:3,:,:].unsqueeze(0)
    
    return img_tensor

param_test_dog_image = '/data/dog_images/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg'
dog_image = Image.open( param_test_dog_image )
plt.imshow(dog_image)
plt.show()

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write a Dog Detector

While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'. Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained VGG-16 model, we need only check if the pre-trained model predicts an index between 151 and 268 (inclusive).

Use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).

In [7]:
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    index = VGG16_predict(img_path)
    return (151 <= index and index <= 268) 
    

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Dog Detector

Question 2: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.

  • What percentage of the images in human_files_short have a detected dog?
  • What percentage of the images in dog_files_short have a detected dog?

Answer:

In [8]:
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function
### on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
human_files_detected_as_human = (np.average([dog_detector(img) for img in human_files_short]) *100)

dog_files_detected_as_human = (np.average([dog_detector(img) for img in dog_files_short]) *100)

print("Percentage of first 100 images where humans detected as a dog: {}%".format(human_files_detected_as_human))
print("Percentage of first 100 images where dogs detected as a dog:   {}%".format(dog_files_detected_as_human))
Percentage of first 100 images where humans detected as a dog: 2.0%
Percentage of first 100 images where dogs detected as a dog:   83.0%
In [9]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Report the performance of another pre-trained network.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)

Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 10%. In Step 4 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.

We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have trouble distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.

Brittany Welsh Springer Spaniel

It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).

Curly-Coated Retriever American Water Spaniel

Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.

Yellow Labrador Chocolate Labrador Black Labrador

We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.

Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dog_images/train, dog_images/valid, and dog_images/test, respectively). You may find this documentation on custom datasets to be a useful resource. If you are interested in augmenting your training and/or validation data, check out the wide variety of transforms!

In [10]:
import os
from torchvision import datasets

### TODO: Write data loaders for training, validation, and test sets
## Specify appropriate transforms, and batch_sizes
from PIL import ImageFile

ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
param_transform_resize = 224
param_transform_crop = 224
param_data_directory = "/data/dog_images"

print("load image data ... ")

train_transforms = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(param_transform_resize),
                                       transforms.CenterCrop(param_transform_crop),
                                       transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
                                       transforms.RandomVerticalFlip(),
                                       transforms.RandomRotation(20),
                                       transforms.ToTensor(),
                                       transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                            [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])

test_transforms = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(param_transform_resize),
                                      transforms.CenterCrop(param_transform_crop),
                                      transforms.ToTensor(),
                                      transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                           [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])

# pass transforms in here, then run the next cell to see how the transforms look
train_data = datasets.ImageFolder( param_data_directory + '/train', transform=train_transforms )
test_data = datasets.ImageFolder( param_data_directory + '/test', transform=test_transforms )
valid_data = datasets.ImageFolder( param_data_directory + '/valid', transform=test_transforms )

print('  Number of train images: ', len(train_data))
print('  Number of test images:  ', len(test_data))
print('  Number of valid images: ', len(valid_data))

trainloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( train_data, batch_size=32, shuffle=True )
testloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( test_data, batch_size=16 )
validloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( valid_data, batch_size=16 )

# create dictionary for all loaders in one
loaders_scratch = {}
loaders_scratch['train'] = trainloader
loaders_scratch['valid'] = validloader
loaders_scratch['test'] = testloader

print("done.")

class_names = train_data.classes
number_classes = len(class_names)

# correct output-size of the CNN
param_output_size = len(class_names)

print("number of classes:", number_classes)
print("")
print("class names: \n", class_names)

inputs, classes = next( iter(loaders_scratch['train']) )

for image, label in zip(inputs, classes): 
    image = image.to("cpu").clone().detach()
    image = image.numpy().squeeze()
    image = image.transpose(1,2,0)
    # normalize image
    image = image * np.array((0.229, 0.224, 0.225)) + np.array((0.485, 0.456, 0.406))
    image = image.clip(0, 1)
     
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12,3))
    plt.imshow(image)
    plt.title(class_names[label])
load image data ... 
  Number of train images:  6680
  Number of test images:   836
  Number of valid images:  835
done.
number of classes: 133

class names: 
 ['001.Affenpinscher', '002.Afghan_hound', '003.Airedale_terrier', '004.Akita', '005.Alaskan_malamute', '006.American_eskimo_dog', '007.American_foxhound', '008.American_staffordshire_terrier', '009.American_water_spaniel', '010.Anatolian_shepherd_dog', '011.Australian_cattle_dog', '012.Australian_shepherd', '013.Australian_terrier', '014.Basenji', '015.Basset_hound', '016.Beagle', '017.Bearded_collie', '018.Beauceron', '019.Bedlington_terrier', '020.Belgian_malinois', '021.Belgian_sheepdog', '022.Belgian_tervuren', '023.Bernese_mountain_dog', '024.Bichon_frise', '025.Black_and_tan_coonhound', '026.Black_russian_terrier', '027.Bloodhound', '028.Bluetick_coonhound', '029.Border_collie', '030.Border_terrier', '031.Borzoi', '032.Boston_terrier', '033.Bouvier_des_flandres', '034.Boxer', '035.Boykin_spaniel', '036.Briard', '037.Brittany', '038.Brussels_griffon', '039.Bull_terrier', '040.Bulldog', '041.Bullmastiff', '042.Cairn_terrier', '043.Canaan_dog', '044.Cane_corso', '045.Cardigan_welsh_corgi', '046.Cavalier_king_charles_spaniel', '047.Chesapeake_bay_retriever', '048.Chihuahua', '049.Chinese_crested', '050.Chinese_shar-pei', '051.Chow_chow', '052.Clumber_spaniel', '053.Cocker_spaniel', '054.Collie', '055.Curly-coated_retriever', '056.Dachshund', '057.Dalmatian', '058.Dandie_dinmont_terrier', '059.Doberman_pinscher', '060.Dogue_de_bordeaux', '061.English_cocker_spaniel', '062.English_setter', '063.English_springer_spaniel', '064.English_toy_spaniel', '065.Entlebucher_mountain_dog', '066.Field_spaniel', '067.Finnish_spitz', '068.Flat-coated_retriever', '069.French_bulldog', '070.German_pinscher', '071.German_shepherd_dog', '072.German_shorthaired_pointer', '073.German_wirehaired_pointer', '074.Giant_schnauzer', '075.Glen_of_imaal_terrier', '076.Golden_retriever', '077.Gordon_setter', '078.Great_dane', '079.Great_pyrenees', '080.Greater_swiss_mountain_dog', '081.Greyhound', '082.Havanese', '083.Ibizan_hound', '084.Icelandic_sheepdog', '085.Irish_red_and_white_setter', '086.Irish_setter', '087.Irish_terrier', '088.Irish_water_spaniel', '089.Irish_wolfhound', '090.Italian_greyhound', '091.Japanese_chin', '092.Keeshond', '093.Kerry_blue_terrier', '094.Komondor', '095.Kuvasz', '096.Labrador_retriever', '097.Lakeland_terrier', '098.Leonberger', '099.Lhasa_apso', '100.Lowchen', '101.Maltese', '102.Manchester_terrier', '103.Mastiff', '104.Miniature_schnauzer', '105.Neapolitan_mastiff', '106.Newfoundland', '107.Norfolk_terrier', '108.Norwegian_buhund', '109.Norwegian_elkhound', '110.Norwegian_lundehund', '111.Norwich_terrier', '112.Nova_scotia_duck_tolling_retriever', '113.Old_english_sheepdog', '114.Otterhound', '115.Papillon', '116.Parson_russell_terrier', '117.Pekingese', '118.Pembroke_welsh_corgi', '119.Petit_basset_griffon_vendeen', '120.Pharaoh_hound', '121.Plott', '122.Pointer', '123.Pomeranian', '124.Poodle', '125.Portuguese_water_dog', '126.Saint_bernard', '127.Silky_terrier', '128.Smooth_fox_terrier', '129.Tibetan_mastiff', '130.Welsh_springer_spaniel', '131.Wirehaired_pointing_griffon', '132.Xoloitzcuintli', '133.Yorkshire_terrier']
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Question 3: Describe your chosen procedure for preprocessing the data.

  • How does your code resize the images (by cropping, stretching, etc)? What size did you pick for the input tensor, and why?
  • Did you decide to augment the dataset? If so, how (through translations, flips, rotations, etc)? If not, why not?

Answer:

The training images will be resized by cropping them, while the test images will be resized by scaling and then cropping. The size that I selected for the images was 299 pixels, so I could reuse them in the next section with an Inception V3 network.

With rotating, cropping, and horizontal flipping, the training was supplemented.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the template in the code cell below.

In [11]:
#Loaded the training and then test and furthermore validation. After that load the data from DataLoader. Then resize the image to 224, croped it from the center and random vertical and horizontal and ratate.
#I also resize the pre trained model to 224x224 pixel images. Then normalize it and the standard deviations are [0.229, 0.224, 0.225] and mean as [0.485, 0.456, 0.406].
BREEDS = len(train_data.classes)
print("There are {} breeds.".format(BREEDS))
There are 133 breeds.
In [12]:
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

# define the CNN architecture
class Net(nn.Module):
    ### TODO: choose an architecture, and complete the class
    def __init__(self):
        super(Net, self).__init__()
        ## Define layers of a CNN
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 16, 3, padding=1)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(16, 32, 3, padding=1)
        self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 3, padding=1)

        self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2)
        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(28 * 28 * 64, 500)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(500, param_output_size)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.25)
        self.batch_norm = nn.BatchNorm1d(num_features=500)
        print("done")
        
    def forward(self, x):
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv1(x)))
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv2(x)))
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv3(x)))
        
        # flatten image input --> 28 * 28 * 64 = 50176
        x = x.view(x.size(0), -1)
        # add dropout layer
        x = self.dropout(x)
        # add 1st hidden layer, with relu activation function
        x = F.relu(self.batch_norm( self.fc1(x)) )
        # add dropout layer
        x = self.dropout(x)
        # add 2nd hidden layer, with relu activation function
        x = self.fc2(x)
        return x

#-#-# You do NOT have to modify the code below this line. #-#-#

# instantiate the CNN
model_scratch = Net()
print(model_scratch)


# move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    model_scratch.cuda()
done
Net(
  (conv1): Conv2d(3, 16, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
  (conv2): Conv2d(16, 32, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
  (conv3): Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
  (pool): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
  (fc1): Linear(in_features=50176, out_features=500, bias=True)
  (fc2): Linear(in_features=500, out_features=133, bias=True)
  (dropout): Dropout(p=0.25)
  (batch_norm): BatchNorm1d(500, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
)

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step.

Answer:

It's been mostly trial and error, copying what we did in the CIFAR problem. I chose three convolutionary layers (somewhat arbitrarily), because two layers didn't seem to be doing very well. Convolutionary layer doubles its depth while halving its height and width (using MaxPool);

I then flattened the layer into the transition from the convolutionary layers to the layers that were completely associated. I also attached a fully connected layer with 500 outputs-a rough rounding of the number of flattened layer input weights down to the nearest 100th. There was no magical number, I just needed a transition from the broad flattened layer to the final output layer and I was running out of memory while I was playing with larger values and since this is not the intended final model I tried to keep it modest.

To the the probability of overfitting, I added dropouts (except the final one) to the activation layers. Finally, I applied ReLU activation at each of the layers (except the final output layer) to make the model non-linear.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_scratch, and the optimizer as optimizer_scratch below.

In [13]:
import torch.optim as optim

### TODO: select loss function
param_learning_rate = 0.01
criterion_scratch = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

### TODO: select optimizer
optimizer_scratch = optim.SGD(model_scratch.parameters(), lr=param_learning_rate)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_scratch.pt'.

In [14]:
# the following import is required for training to be robust to truncated images
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

def train(n_epochs, loaders, model, optimizer, criterion, use_cuda, save_path, is_inception: bool=False):
    """returns trained model"""
    # initialize tracker for minimum validation loss
    print("start training for {} epochs ...".format(n_epochs))
    valid_loss_min = np.Inf 
    
    if os.path.exists(save_path):
        print("load previous saved model ...")
        model.load_state_dict(torch.load(save_path))
        
    
    for epoch in range(1, n_epochs+1):
        # initialize variables to monitor training and validation loss
        train_loss = 0.0
        valid_loss = 0.0
        
        ###################
        # train the model #
        ###################
        model.train()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['train']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
            ## find the loss and update the model parameters accordingly
            ## record the average training loss, using something like
            ## train_loss = train_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - train_loss))
            
            if is_inception:
                output, _ = model(data)
            else:
                output = model(data)
            optimizer.zero_grad()
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            loss.backward()
            optimizer.step()
            train_loss += loss.item()*data.size(0)
            
        ######################    
        # validate the model #
        model.eval()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['valid']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
            ## update the average validation loss

            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            valid_loss += loss.item() * data.size(0)
        
        train_loss = train_loss / len(loaders['train'].dataset)
        valid_loss = valid_loss / len(loaders['valid'].dataset)
        
        # print training/validation statistics 
        print('Epoch: {} \tTraining Loss: {:.6f} \tValidation Loss: {:.6f}'.format(
            epoch, 
            train_loss,
            valid_loss
            ))
        
        ## TODO: save the model if validation loss has decreased
        if valid_loss <= valid_loss_min:
            #print('Validation loss decreased ({:.6f} --> {:.6f}).  Saving model ...'.format(valid_loss_min, valid_loss))
            print('  Saving model ...')
            torch.save(model.state_dict(), save_path)
            valid_loss_min = valid_loss
        else:
            print("")
            
    print("done")        
    # return trained model
    return model

    
# train the model
#model_scratch = train(1, loaders_scratch, model_scratch, optimizer_scratch, 
#                      criterion_scratch, use_cuda, 'model_scratch11.pt')

# load the model that got the best validation accuracy
#model_scratch.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_scratch.pt'))
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param_epochs = 10

model_scratch = train(param_epochs, loaders_scratch, model_scratch, optimizer_scratch, 
                      criterion_scratch, use_cuda, 'model_scratch.pt')

#model_scratch.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_scratch.pt'))
start training for 10 epochs ...
load previous saved model ...
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 0.785344 	Validation Loss: 3.858438
  Saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 0.723058 	Validation Loss: 3.891117

Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 0.727577 	Validation Loss: 3.901230

Epoch: 4 	Training Loss: 0.696197 	Validation Loss: 3.966174

Epoch: 5 	Training Loss: 0.663137 	Validation Loss: 3.872655

Epoch: 6 	Training Loss: 0.668409 	Validation Loss: 3.876295

Epoch: 7 	Training Loss: 0.649936 	Validation Loss: 3.907782

Epoch: 8 	Training Loss: 0.627032 	Validation Loss: 3.970245

Epoch: 9 	Training Loss: 0.602007 	Validation Loss: 3.936419

Epoch: 10 	Training Loss: 0.591347 	Validation Loss: 3.993616

done
In [16]:
model_scratch.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_scratch.pt'))

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 10%.

In [17]:
def test(loaders, model, criterion, use_cuda):

    # monitor test loss and accuracy
    test_loss = 0.
    correct = 0.
    total = 0.

    model.eval()
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['test']):
        # move to GPU
        if use_cuda:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model(data)
        # calculate the loss
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        # update average test loss 
        test_loss = test_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - test_loss))
        # convert output probabilities to predicted class
        pred = output.data.max(1, keepdim=True)[1]
        # compare predictions to true label
        correct += np.sum(np.squeeze(pred.eq(target.data.view_as(pred))).cpu().numpy())
        total += data.size(0)
            
    print('Test Loss: {:.6f}\n'.format(test_loss))

    print('\nTest Accuracy: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
        100. * correct / total, correct, total))

# call test function    
test(loaders_scratch, model_scratch, criterion_scratch, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 3.854965


Test Accuracy: 18% (152/836)

Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)

You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dogImages/train, dogImages/valid, and dogImages/test, respectively).

If you like, you are welcome to use the same data loaders from the previous step, when you created a CNN from scratch.

In [18]:
## TODO: Specify data loaders
loaders_transfer = loaders_scratch
loaders_transfer_wfc = loaders_scratch.copy()

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Use transfer learning to create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the code cell below, and save your initialized model as the variable model_transfer.

In [19]:
import torchvision.models as models
import torch.nn as nn

## TODO: Specify model architecture 
model_transfer = models.vgg16(pretrained=True)


if use_cuda:
    model_transfer = model_transfer.cuda()
    
print(model_transfer)
VGG(
  (features): Sequential(
    (0): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (3): ReLU(inplace)
    (4): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (5): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (6): ReLU(inplace)
    (7): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (8): ReLU(inplace)
    (9): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (10): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (11): ReLU(inplace)
    (12): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (13): ReLU(inplace)
    (14): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (15): ReLU(inplace)
    (16): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (17): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (18): ReLU(inplace)
    (19): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (20): ReLU(inplace)
    (21): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (22): ReLU(inplace)
    (23): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (24): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (25): ReLU(inplace)
    (26): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (27): ReLU(inplace)
    (28): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (29): ReLU(inplace)
    (30): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
  )
  (classifier): Sequential(
    (0): Linear(in_features=25088, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (3): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (4): ReLU(inplace)
    (5): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (6): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=1000, bias=True)
  )
)

Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.

Answer:

I looked at the model's source code and string representation, and saw that a single full-connected (Linear) layer with 2,048 inputs and 1,000 outputs was being labelled. As we only have 133 outputs, I replaced their final layer (model.fc) with one that only had 133 outputs but had the same number of inputs.

I chose the Inception V3 network because, like the VGG 16 model, it was trained on the ImageNet data set and works to detect image features but, as noted in Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision, the Inception model needs less computational resources than the VGG model, which I found to be an attractive feature.

The Inception model does present a problem in that during training it uses an auxiliary classifier, so that the training function has to be changed to handle this (the output returns a tuple of tensors), but this seemed small.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_transfer, and the optimizer as optimizer_transfer below.

In [19]:
# It will be efficient to use pre trained model. After training the model works good for feature detections. We used transfer learning for this task. and used VGG 16 and VGG 19 models.
# The classifier is fully connected. The network was already training with the imagenet dataset. But it is not working for the dog classification, for doing that we put a clasifier and would worked.
In [20]:
#for param in model_transfer.parameters():
for param in model_transfer.features.parameters():
    param.requires_grad = False

last_layer = nn.Linear(4096, param_output_size)

# replace the last fully connected layer with a Linnear layer with 133 out features (param_output_size)
#model_transfer.classifier[6] = nn.Linear(4096, param_output_size, bias=True)

model_transfer.classifier[6] = last_layer


if use_cuda:
    #model_transfer = model_transfer.cuda()
     model_transfer.cuda()

print(model_transfer.classifier[6].out_features)

print(model_transfer)
133
VGG(
  (features): Sequential(
    (0): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (3): ReLU(inplace)
    (4): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (5): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (6): ReLU(inplace)
    (7): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (8): ReLU(inplace)
    (9): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (10): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (11): ReLU(inplace)
    (12): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (13): ReLU(inplace)
    (14): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (15): ReLU(inplace)
    (16): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (17): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (18): ReLU(inplace)
    (19): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (20): ReLU(inplace)
    (21): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (22): ReLU(inplace)
    (23): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
    (24): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (25): ReLU(inplace)
    (26): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (27): ReLU(inplace)
    (28): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
    (29): ReLU(inplace)
    (30): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
  )
  (classifier): Sequential(
    (0): Linear(in_features=25088, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (1): ReLU(inplace)
    (2): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (3): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=4096, bias=True)
    (4): ReLU(inplace)
    (5): Dropout(p=0.5)
    (6): Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=133, bias=True)
  )
)
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In [21]:
import torch.optim as optim

criterion_transfer = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

# for VGG 16
#optimizer_transfer = optim.SGD(filter(lambda p: p.requires_grad,model_transfer.parameters()), lr=param_learning_rate)

optimizer_transfer = optim.SGD(model_transfer.classifier.parameters(), lr=0.001)
In [22]:
train_on_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()

# number of epochs to train the model
n_epochs = 5

for epoch in range(1, n_epochs+1):

    # keep track of training and validation loss
    train_loss = 0.0
    
    ###################
    # train the model #
    ###################
    # model by default is set to train
    for batch_i, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders_transfer['train']):
        # move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
        if train_on_gpu:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # clear the gradients of all optimized variables
        optimizer_transfer.zero_grad()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model_transfer(data)
        # calculate the batch loss
        loss = criterion_transfer(output, target)
        # backward pass: compute gradient of the loss with respect to model parameters
        loss.backward()
        # perform a single optimization step (parameter update)
        optimizer_transfer.step()
        # update training loss 
        train_loss += loss.item()
        
        if batch_i % 20 == 19:    # print training loss every specified number of mini-batches
            print('Epoch %d, Batch %d loss: %.16f' %
                  (epoch, batch_i + 1, train_loss / 20))
            train_loss = 0.0
Epoch 1, Batch 20 loss: 5.0185564994812015
Epoch 1, Batch 40 loss: 4.9411625862121582
Epoch 1, Batch 60 loss: 4.9273543596267704
Epoch 1, Batch 80 loss: 4.8178712368011478
Epoch 1, Batch 100 loss: 4.8014744997024534
Epoch 1, Batch 120 loss: 4.7378034830093387
Epoch 1, Batch 140 loss: 4.5992651700973513
Epoch 1, Batch 160 loss: 4.6092360496520994
Epoch 1, Batch 180 loss: 4.4493826866149906
Epoch 1, Batch 200 loss: 4.4739629268646244
Epoch 2, Batch 20 loss: 4.3811266899108885
Epoch 2, Batch 40 loss: 4.2292138814926146
Epoch 2, Batch 60 loss: 4.2021546244621275
Epoch 2, Batch 80 loss: 4.1371672630310057
Epoch 2, Batch 100 loss: 4.0584839701652529
Epoch 2, Batch 120 loss: 4.0366009712219242
Epoch 2, Batch 140 loss: 3.9276525020599364
Epoch 2, Batch 160 loss: 3.8592709660530091
Epoch 2, Batch 180 loss: 3.7959869980812071
Epoch 2, Batch 200 loss: 3.6986327052116392
Epoch 3, Batch 20 loss: 3.5329006433486940
Epoch 3, Batch 40 loss: 3.5171326756477357
Epoch 3, Batch 60 loss: 3.4172649979591370
Epoch 3, Batch 80 loss: 3.3639422059059143
Epoch 3, Batch 100 loss: 3.3335496902465822
Epoch 3, Batch 120 loss: 3.1888315081596375
Epoch 3, Batch 140 loss: 3.1434850335121154
Epoch 3, Batch 160 loss: 3.0834261894226076
Epoch 3, Batch 180 loss: 2.9219317793846131
Epoch 3, Batch 200 loss: 2.9951474428176881
Epoch 4, Batch 20 loss: 2.8771874070167542
Epoch 4, Batch 40 loss: 2.7779295682907104
Epoch 4, Batch 60 loss: 2.6935435771942138
Epoch 4, Batch 80 loss: 2.7974434375762938
Epoch 4, Batch 100 loss: 2.4665784478187560
Epoch 4, Batch 120 loss: 2.5299602389335631
Epoch 4, Batch 140 loss: 2.6577409982681273
Epoch 4, Batch 160 loss: 2.5016250729560854
Epoch 4, Batch 180 loss: 2.5002655386924744
Epoch 4, Batch 200 loss: 2.5281961739063261
Epoch 5, Batch 20 loss: 2.4631385445594787
Epoch 5, Batch 40 loss: 2.4084054529666901
Epoch 5, Batch 60 loss: 2.3617534399032594
Epoch 5, Batch 80 loss: 2.2993836462497712
Epoch 5, Batch 100 loss: 2.1886575758457183
Epoch 5, Batch 120 loss: 2.1925495207309722
Epoch 5, Batch 140 loss: 2.0841412901878358
Epoch 5, Batch 160 loss: 2.1793158352375031
Epoch 5, Batch 180 loss: 2.0707190632820129
Epoch 5, Batch 200 loss: 2.1384117007255554

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_transfer.pt'.

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(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.

In [23]:
test(loaders_transfer, model_transfer, criterion_transfer, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 1.028614


Test Accuracy: 75% (632/836)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Predict Dog Breed with the Model

Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.

In [24]:
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input
### and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.

# list of class names by index, i.e. a name can be accessed like class_names[0]
#class_names = [item[4:].replace("_", " ") for item in data_transfer['train'].classes]





def predict_breed_transfer(img_path):
    # load the image and return the predicted breed
    image_tensor = process_image_to_tensor(img_path)

    # move model inputs to cuda, if GPU available
    if use_cuda:
        image_tensor = image_tensor.cuda()

    # get sample outputs
    output = model_transfer(image_tensor)
    # convert output probabilities to predicted class
    _, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
    pred = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())
    return class_names[pred]

def display_image(img_path, title="Title"):
    image = Image.open(img_path)
    plt.title(title)
    plt.imshow(image)
    plt.show()
    
import random
from PIL import Image, ImageFile 

for image in random.sample(list(human_files_short), 4): 
    predicted_breed = predict_breed_transfer(image)
    display_image(image, title="Predicted: {}".format(predicted_breed) )

Step 5: Write your Algorithm

Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,

  • if a dog is detected in the image, return the predicted breed.
  • if a human is detected in the image, return the resembling dog breed.
  • if neither is detected in the image, provide output that indicates an error.

You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and human_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 4 to predict dog breed.

Some sample output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

Sample Human Output

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write your Algorithm

In [25]:
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

def run_app(img_path):
    ## handle cases for a human face, dog, and neither
    
    if (face_detector(img_path)):
        print("Hello Human!")
        predicted_breed = predict_breed_transfer(img_path)
        display_image(img_path, title="Predicted: {}".format(predicted_breed) )
        
        print("You look like a ...")
        print(predicted_breed)
        
    elif dog_detector(img_path):
        print("Hello Dog!")
        predicted_breed = predict_breed_transfer(img_path)
        display_image(img_path, title="Predicted: {}".format(predicted_breed) )
        
        print("Your breed is most likley ...")
        print(predicted_breed)
    else:
        print("Oh, we're sorry! We couldn't detect any dog or human face in the image.")
        display_image(img_path, title="...")
        print("Try another!")
        
    print("\n")

Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test Your Algorithm on Sample Images!

Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.

Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.

Answer: (Three possible points for improvement)

The result was better than I planned, but here are some potential improvements.

  • try other models, particularly the Resnet model, the state of the art for imagenet.
  • Tune the Transfer Model further-it improved at epoch 98 so more testing would be easier (I stopped because of the time it took to test it).
  • Seek alternatives to Stochastic Gradient Descent-especially optimising Adam-to boost preparation.
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## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on
## at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

## suggested code, below
for file in np.hstack((human_files[:3], dog_files[:3])):
    run_app(file)
Hello Human!
You look like a ...
048.Chihuahua


Hello Human!
You look like a ...
056.Dachshund


Hello Human!
You look like a ...
055.Curly-coated_retriever


Hello Dog!
Your breed is most likley ...
041.Bullmastiff


Hello Dog!
Your breed is most likley ...
041.Bullmastiff


Hello Dog!
Your breed is most likley ...
103.Mastiff


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